Few occasions attract a bigger, more intense microscope than the opening weekend of the Premier League season.
With fans starved of competitive football for, well, not too long (but it feels like an eternity), they flock to the first gameweek like starving hyenas to a carcass, not only feasting on it, but savouring every morsel in a way they wouldn't had they been kept appropriately fed.
This, naturally, leads to massive overreactions. It is in our nature to draw conclusions, and small sample sizes be damned! We'll draw them anyway, even if they're absolutely ludicrous.
B/R Football kept a close eye on the reaction to the Premier League's first 10 fixtures of the 2019-20 season, gauging the reaction to the events that unfolded.